2022 ACF Fall - Thanks and General Discussion

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Berniecrat
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2022 ACF Fall - Thanks and General Discussion

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Thank you to everyone who played and staffed 2022 ACF Fall! I want to use this post to thank everyone who had a hand in putting Fall together, and to invite general thoughts and discussion on how the set played. Specific questions and errata will be discussed in a separate thread.

It took a village to produce this set. Steven and I would like to first thank our subject editors, who had the very difficult task of trying to balance difficulty constraints while still producing interesting questions, but delivered admirably! Thank you to:
Dean Ah Now (World History, European History)
Raymond Chen (British Literature, World Literature)
Jim Fan (American Literature, European Literature)
Sean Farrell (Non-Abrahamic Religion, Mythology, Visual Fine Arts)
Evan Knox (Abrahamic Religion, Current Events, Pop Culture)
Daniel Ma (Other History, Auditory Fine Arts)
Ned Tagtmeier (Philosophy, Social Science)
Eric Yin (Biology, Chemistry, Physics, Other Science excluding Math/CS)
Walter Zhang (American History, Math/CS, Geography)

Next, with the packet submission-optional nature of ACF Fall, freelancers helped our editors heavily both by offering feedback on editor/submission questions and by chipping in questions of their own. Thank you to our freelancers Ethan Ashbrook, Arthur Delot-Vilain, Ganon Evans, Jason Hong, Caroline Mao, Hari Parameswaran, Bryanna Shao, and Ethan Strombeck.

A huge thanks to our proofreaders Ganon Evans, Katherine Lei, and Bryanna Shao, as well as our esteemed ACF editor-in-chief Nick Jensen who ensured that wording was tightened, answerlines were expansive, and more. Even if we did have some copyediting issues in the final version of the set (largely due to Google Doc suggestions being approved over existing questions causing minor formatting problems), this set would not have played as well as it did without the help of those four. Together, they provided hundreds of comments on the Google Docs, which helped strengthen the set.

Thank you to our playtesters: Jakob Boeye, Thomas Gioia, Grant Peet, Ryan Rosenberg, and Andrew Wang.

Henry Cafaro, Iain Carpenter, Mazin Omer, and Nathan S. Sheffield all provided valuable feedback through the production process as well.

A special thanks for the hundreds of staffers who volunteered to spend their Saturday or Sunday ensuring that the tournament sites ran smoothly. I hope everyone enjoyed 2022 ACF Fall, and feel free to put your thoughts here!
Arjun Nageswaran
Aptakisic '17
Stevenson '21
Harvard '25
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